From: Andre Majorel (amajorel_at_teaser.fr)
Date: 2002-03-27 12:37:46
On 2002-03-27 11:21 +0100, Michal Bartczak wrote: > This is raising a pretty interesting question; can anyone get your "free but > not gpl'ed" code and add a line inside it, gpl it, and practically forbid > you (the author) from making anything usefull and not-gpled in future from > this code? No. You can't change the license of something you don't own. Anyone will still be able to go back to the original non-GPL'd code. > GPL is cancer-a-like, but I never thought of such possibility :) Maybe I > should watch more X Files? Here's the siutation, as I see it : suppose you have written some software. You have decided to make the source available. The next question is, do you want to allow other people to make proprietary derivatives of your code ? If no, you need the GPL or another similarly restrictive license. If yes, you need a permissive license, such as BSD or XFree86. -- André Majorel <amajorel_at_teaser.fr> http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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